Why Internet explorer is most hated browser and why?

Oh you innocent soul, unaware of the pains and nightmares the webdeveloper might be going through!

@mt3o I know the pain ;_;

And also because it is a trend. Firefox also doesn't support basic HTML5 things like date input. But Firefox never gets hate.

@wil222 Firefox is a dream to work with by comparison

Look at can I use. You'll understand.

I've been using IE11 for the last 3 days at work because I don't have a full set up yet, and it's been hell. Simple web pages taking forever to load (and the company has 100+ mb/s download/upload) and half the pages I look at no longer support it and are unviewable, which I really can't be upset about because I don't want to be using IE either

My girlfriend always says
"Stop ranting IE. It ones was good but they just didn't keep it up to date."

Maybe that's true..

Outdated and not supported
Slow
Ugly as fuck!
Crashes run better than the browser

Through IE9, they had lots of custom attributes and things that were just different because they felt that having unique/different behaviors would force people to code for and use their browser.

They finally gave up in 10, started sticking to the specs better, and gave us what was (for the time) a not horrible set of dev tools. 11 was even (again for the time) mostly standards compliant (though a bit passive aggressive about it--I had one bug where a comment before the doc type declaration threw it into quirks mode because the spec said the DTD absolutely had to be first.)

These days, though, people try to insist we develop for them, even though everything before 11 is end of life. 11 only gets security updates, so it gets harder to work with all the time. I'm pretty sure the only reason 11 is still supported is some contract that requires them to support ActiveX controls through 2022 or whenever they've said EOL is.

Edge, as odd as it is to say it, is not horrible.

@BambuSource
Honestly? Not really.

The reason Netscape got so popular is because it was so significantly better that even the general public realized and switched.

@Jop- yes I know, hence why it's been hell